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Lockerbie line entry at Dumfries

This diagram shows the Lockerbie line joining the G&SWR main line at Dumfires by crossing it by an overbridge and joining the Castle Douglas line, both then converging with the G&SWR from the west side.

Can anyone provide supporting evidence for this? I can't find any proper contemporary map that shows that arrangement: the Lockerbie line simply converged from the east in the ordinary way, didn't it? Afterbrunel (talk) 07:50, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

The insert on page 29 of my 1989 Jowett's Railway Atlas shows the line in question as it is in the diagram. Britmax (talk) 09:30, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

Although this map shows a simpler arrangement. More work needed, I think. Britmax (talk) 10:49, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

The Clearing house diagram shows the layout currently on our RDT but the geographic maps (OS and the trackbed on Google Earth) show a simple diagram, with in the case of Google Earth no room for the more complex junction to have existed. I think that Jowett drew his map from the RCH diagram and that the RCH diagram is wrong. The RCH priority was revenue sharing and the occasional geographic inaccuracy would not have mattered that much. Britmax (talk) 11:13, 29 November 2014 (UTC)